Windows 7 Card Reader Issue?

Synthesis

I've recently switched to Windows 7. My PC has a built-in card reader suite (SD,XD,SM). While it works, for some reason, the drivers themselves disappear from explorer as soon as any card is removed.

I've tried deleting the USB root hub from the device manager and letting it reinstall itself. It does, and the drive icons appear, and then they disappear again. They sometimes reappear again to disappear again.

I've been looking online, and apparently, this is a very common problem, that doesn't seem to have any solution. The Windows 7 thread is closed, regretably. Has anyone managed to get a card reader working with Windows 7?

(I've also tried flashing my motherboard bios--I have a EVGA 780i--and updating my drivers, with no luck.)

EDIT: Figured this out. Should have modified message.

travathian

I moved my card reader over to my new system and it hasn't worked reliably under Win7. It plugs in via a USB header on the motherboard. I know the thing works because I see each individual card reader during the POST process, plus it worked fine under XP.

Kinda frustrating, hopefully they are working on a solution.

Synthesis

Actually, I figured it out (it was something of a stupid error on my part), though apparently a lot of people have a very similar problem. So I'll pose another question--is UAC worth keeping on 7? I disabled it on Vista after a while (basically trusting in my own carefullness).

tsmvengy

I keep UAC on just because it doesn't come up that much.

Stormwatcher

My card reader thingy works 100% fine on Win7 RC, so unless they broke it when switching to retail, it's not Win7 that's broken.

Mr_Rose

Synthesis wrote: »

I've recently switched to Windows 7. My PC has a built-in card reader suite (SD,XD,SM). While it works, for some reason, the drivers themselves disappear from explorer as soon as any card is removed.

I've tried deleting the USB root hub from the device manager and letting it reinstall itself. It does, and the drive icons appear, and then they disappear again. They sometimes reappear again to disappear again.

I've been looking online, and apparently, this is a very common problem, that doesn't seem to have any solution. The Windows 7 thread is closed, regretably. Has anyone managed to get a card reader working with Windows 7?

(I've also tried flashing my motherboard bios--I have a EVGA 780i--and updating my drivers, with no luck.)

When you say the drives disappear, what exactly happens?
Do they reappear when you reinsert the card?

RBach

Win7 will hide the drive icons for removable storage that doesn't have something plugged in at the moment. The drive should reappear once you plug another SD card in, however.

Synthesis

tsmvengy wrote: »

I keep UAC on just because it doesn't come up that much.

It happens a lot....well, I suppose that's a relative term. Every time I want to open something, or run something, it comes up. Which is a good bit.

The precautionary worth is probably worthwhile, but it is kind of a pain to have the desktop darken every 5 minutes with a message. I also run MSE, Malwarebyte, Windows firewall, and the other usual precautions.